The monumental and vibrant oil painting "Market at Hötorget" serves as a summary of Pelle Åberg's artistic career. The composition teems with life and movement and includes large parts of his characteristic cast of characters: powerful market women, cheerful customers, a seemingly slightly tipsy gentleman, a curious child, and a young fashionable woman in a straw hat with a basket from Mallorca. It is the distinctive young woman who first captures our gaze – the light falls over her face, and the red glove shines like an exclamation mark in the centre of the image.

The floral splendour and bounty of fruit and vegetable crates compete in brilliance with the colourful clothing of the market visitors. Patterned tarpaulins flutter in the wind against a clear blue sky. The atmosphere is warm and congenial, yet despite the bustling life, there seems to be no hurry. In true naïve spirit, Åberg emphasises the joy of storytelling over perspective accuracy and academic colour theory – it is the people and their relationships that carry the motif.

Pelle Åberg drew his archetypal characters primarily from the Klara district in central Stockholm, but also from travels abroad. His broad repertoire includes narrative scenes from cafés and bars in Paris as well as Spanish bodegas. As a respected decorative painter, he had clients throughout Sweden and executed, among other works in his hometown, imaginative decorations for the Södra Teatern and Scalateatern, as well as paintings for the restaurants in the Konstnärshuset and at the Strand Hotel in Stockholm.

In the execution of "Market at Hötorget," Pelle Åberg collaborated with the self-taught artist Tore Wideryd (1908–1992), with whom he also exhibited. This vibrant work of theirs was displayed in the restaurant at the Strand Hotel in Stockholm from 1983 to 2002.